kaksi

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Finnish

Finnish numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: kaksi
    Colloquial counting form: kaa
    Ordinal: toinen
    Colloquial ordinal: toka
    Ordinal abbreviation: 2., 2:nen
    Digit name: kakkonen
    Adverbial: kahdesti
    Multiplier: kaksinkertainen
    Distributive: kaksittain
    Fractional: puolikas
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Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kakci, from Proto-Uralic *käktä ~ *kakta. Final i is a common Finnic innovation, by analogy to yksi (“1”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑksi/,
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑks/, (colloquial)
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑksi
  • Syllabification(key): kak‧si

Numeral

kaksi

  1. two

Usage notes

Declension

Declension of kaksi (type 31/kaksi)
noun case singular pluraladverbial form singular plural
nominative kaksi kahdetsuperessive kahtaalla –
genitive kahden kaksiendelative kahtaalta –
partitive kahta kaksiasublative kahtaalle –
accusative kaksi
kahden		 kahdetlative kahtia –
inessive kahdessa kaksissatemporal – –
elative kahdesta kaksistacausative – –
illative kahteen kaksiinmultiplicative kahdesti –
adessive kahdella kaksilladistributive – kaksittain
ablative kahdelta kaksiltatemp. dist. – –
allative kahdelle kaksilleprolative – –
essive kahtena kaksinasituative – –
translative kahdeksi kaksiksioppositive – –
abessive kahdetta kaksitta
instructive kahden kaksin
comitative – kaksine

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See also

References

  1. ^ Junttila, Santeri, Kallio, Petri, Holopainen, Sampsa, Kuokkala, Juha, Pystynen, Juho, editors (2020–), “kaksi”, in Suomen vanhimman sanaston etymologinen verkkosanakirja‎ (in Finnish), retrieved 2024-01-01

Further reading

Anagrams

Karelian

Numeral

kaksi

  1. Superseded spelling of kakši.

References

  • P. M. Zaykov (1999) Грамматика Карельского языка (фонетика и морфология) [Grammar of the Karelian language (phonetics and morphology)], →ISBN, page 52
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